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The Most Significant Benefits of Lean Manufacturing

Kainexus

No matter what industry your organization is in, competition these days is tough. The Lean manufacturing approach is proven to achieve operational excellence and beat the competition. Regardless of your customers, every organization needs to improve and evolve constantly.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. But as even Steve Blank, the father of the Lean Startup movement, notes- if you apply the Lean Startup in the corporate context, you will only get innovation theater. Confidence refers to how confident you are that the activity will deliver the expected impact.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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How SAY San Diego is Using Lean Innovation to Create Real Change

Moves the Needle

Organizations must also stay relevant and competitive to vie for funder support. This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. When the focus is on survival, pausing to think about how to work smarter instead of harder seems outside of the scope of possibility.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

Moves the Needle

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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5 Innovation Lessons from the Backstory of OpenTable.com

Leapfrogging

We want to be the OpenTable of X” (with X referring to a market outside of dining) became a familiar phrase in Silicon Valley following the company’s market success, and remains so today. That’s what creates competitive advantage. Two decades ago, OpenTable proved out these five important innovation lessons.